Joseph Fleck

Joseph Fleck

Picture of Fleck c. 1945
Born (1892-08-25)August 25, 1892
Sziklos, Austria-Hungary
Died April 5, 1977(1977-04-05) (aged 84)
Pleasanton, California
Nationality American
Education Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Known for Painting
Notable work Fiesta Array, Taos (1929)
Amarilla (1929)
Geraniums (1928)
Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall on the Campus (1944-1945)
Movement Regionalism, Social realism, American modernism, American realism, Synchromism
Awards Arizona State Fair (1928)
Kansas City Art Institute (1929)
Leon Gaspard Memorial Prize (1964)
New Mexico State Fair (1965)
Patron(s) Thomas Hart Benton
Ernest L. Blumenschein

Joseph Amadeus Fleck (August 25, 1892 – April 5, 1977) was an American painter and muralist. His works include The Red Man of Oklahoma Sees the First Stage Coach, in Hugo, Oklahoma,[1] and First Mail Crossing Raton Pass and Unloading the Mail in Raton, in Raton, New Mexico.[2]

The Red Man of Oklahoma Sees the First Stage Coach (1936). Originally hanging in the Hugo, Oklahoma, U.S. Post Office in 1936, the mural now resides at the Oklahoma School System Administration Building

Biography

Joseph A. Fleck was born in Austria in 1892 and received his academic training at the Royal Viennese Art Academy and Royal Art Academy in Munich. He moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1922 and settled in Taos, New Mexico in 1925. From 1942 to 1946 he was Dean of Fine Arts and artist in residence at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.

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Notes

  1. Marling (1982), pp. 272–276.
  2. Marling (1982), p. 184.
  3. Falk, Peter (1999). Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975 400 Years of Artists in America. Sound View Press. p. 1139. ISBN 0932087558.

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